I finished Harlots, and I want more!!! I haven't watched a show this fast in a long time, I was just very immersed - and I've now added a few books to my list!!! - the setting and the life of these people were so interesting, and I really liked the different classes!!!

I really LOVED a few characters here, Violet and Betsey were great and I liked them working outside of a house, but with the support of Nancy still, I really Amelia Scanwell, and I think they did an incredible job with her mother in s2!!! And then still character, but also shipping house, Will and Margaret got me immediately - I LOVE strong marriages/relationships at the center of a show, and I love blended families and the love Will has for Charlotte and Lucy was beautiful to see (also little Jacob is a star character in this show, I love him so much, he's such a good kid!!!!) - and then Nancy and Margaret, this love and trust and history with each other, how they are also partners, and this understanding of each other... and in this triangle you also have a really good Will and Nancy dynamic, this care and friendship that is beautiful to see!!!

Still with characters, I really like how season 2 and 3 brought you a different side of the justice, and you have these people who want to fulfil the law, but also learning that the law is not everything. Now I don't particularly like that s3 left so many characters behind, and having no idea where they went - you had lost Betsey before but you do learn what happens, not here - so it feels like a completely new show, which I wasn't ready for...

Continuing with season 3 thoughts, it was a bit of a let down after the first two... it wasn't the same, it still did interesting things... but the biggest thing is I feel that the ending wasn't satisfying (it's not a bad ending, but it does not leave you satisfied) - and this starts with Margaret Wells leaving!!! I don't mind the introduction of Jonas - I like him - but the leaving with nothing to come after, feels empty, I'm here waiting (and even more than at the end of s2 - that felt like a more satisfying goodbye)... and then it also feels the pairing up of Will and Nancy (with their own respectively women) feels like a bad choice, the pairings work and make sense, but I feel they implied too hard to make the audience forget Margaret was sent away in an unsatisfying matter!!!

I'll now come back to better things, season 1 and 2 were really good with more of a focused in the two factions, but also with always the side reality of the courtesan with the Wells sisters!!! The show also does a really good job mixing up the dynamics and pairings with the characters and keeping important relationships but bringing new ones as well - Will and Harriet was one I really liked, bc there's this understanding between them of being black but also raising biracial kids in that world, and then Nancy with all the girls!!!

Still on characters, Emily Lacey has such a good arc, she was never a favorite, but she was someone you wanted to see and follow, always planning and preparing!!! I also like, that just like with the justice becoming better, they also give us some culls that we don't mind seeing - my favorite is Fanny's favorite, and the line of coming to her because she reminds him of how his wife was hit well!!!

Really this is a good show, with good characters and setting, that got me crying for at least two episodes - I was especially a mess during 2x07!!! And I've now read all the Will and Margaret fic on ao3, but I'm following to check the Margaret and Nancy ones!!! Definitely recommending this show!!!

I genuinely get so frustrated with tv sometimes?? Especially when it comes to lgbtq characters? I was so invested when it came to Violet Cross and Amelia Scanwell only for them to basically disappear without a trace in season three of harlots 🫠

Off the top:

Neil from the Young Ones, Louis De Pointe Du Lac, Trudy Campbell, Samwise Gamgee, Amelia Scanwell from Harlots, Will Byers, Barb Holland, Robin Buckley, Cameron Frye from Ferris Beuller (❤️), Lailani from Hunie Pop: Double Date, Sadness from Inside Out, Rex from Toy Story, Mater from Cars, Keyleth from Critical Role, Beauregard from Critical Role, pretty much every Marisha Ray character, Miguel from Road To El Dorado, Seymour Krelborn, Linus from Peanuts, Sally from Peanuts, Marcie from Peanuts, Viola from Twelfth Night, Alfredo from La Traviata, Wallace from Wallace and Gromit, and Watson from Sherlock Holmes.

stop it you are making me giggle and twirl my hair and kick my feet back and forth as I lie in my pink fluffy bed (this is a 80s-00s chick flick btw)

The LezWatch.TV character of the day is "Amelia Scanwell" from Harlots

HARLOTS - 1x04

Harlots Pride Fest Original Post

They paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove it isn't true.

~ Black Sails

Harlots Pride Fest ( @harlots-week ) || Prompt: Crosswell

Harlots (2017)

This show is soooo good! I'm obsessed!

Better late than never! A confession fic in which Amelia Scanwell heads to church to be absolved of her sins of the flesh.

CW: Contains description of queer religious conflict

You can find it here!

@harlots-week I love you and thank you for making me do stuff.

NO SPOILERS PLEASE but can anybody tell me where I can safely stream Harlots season 3 online? I'm in Canada and only the first 2 seasons are on Britbox!

Worship, by aldiara

Summary: All her life has been filled with psalms and the language of rapture, but there are no words that can capture this: the things their bodies are saying to each other, sacrilege and blessing both.

Fandom: Harlots

Pairing: Amelia/Violet

Words: 1,799

I've never been sold on CrossWell until this fic. It was just never my cup of tea, but the tags on this one drew me in. Dirty talk, church sex, and blasphemy. How delicious does that sound?

And aldiara delivers with language that is both lascivious and inspiring. Their juxtaposition of the taboo act and the transcendent feelings it brings is beautifully done and really drives home the intimacy of physically sharing oneself with another.

Smut as a genre can be repetitive at times, but this fic has me wanting more and taking notes. The way the author builds up the act and connects all of Amelias feelings for Violet (dirty and sinful) to her feelings of worship (perfect and pure) is truly uplifting. And Violet's smutty dialogue is titilating to read. I can't help but think of James Joyce and his naughty letters to his wife Nora. It's loving and filthy at the same time. In a word: divine.

Harlots Fic Appreciation Week: Share a fic that deserves more attention

This is a fic that I only noticed had appeared while scouring the archive for @harlots-week recommendations, and I’m very happy to have discovered it now. 

Violet/Amelia isn’t a pairing I see much written for (or perhaps not one which I seek out enough), and this one-shot beautifully intertwines moments we see in the show with the moments and thoughts we don’t get to see. I love the author’s style and their characterisation and I hope we get to see more of their work in this fandom. 

the only gaze that matters by writelights

Amelia: You call it a near-death experience, I call it a vibe check from God.

Proverbs 5:3

Can y’all tell I’m salty

HARLOTS - 1x04